Personal profile

Dr Andrew Clay is Principal Lecturer in Critical Technical Practices in the Leicester Media School at De Montfort University. He has published articles on crime and masculinity in British cinema. In addition to projects on British cinema, he is currently researching and publishing on the theory and practice of online film with particular reference to YouTube social media sharing practices and new media developments such as open source cinema and the use of video in social media advertising. He is interested in the opportunities for screening technology and cultures for both non-traditional ‘pop-up’ venues and in bringing online film and video to theatrical screening. He has adopted a number of social media tools in teaching and explores the pedagogical potential for hands-on experience of digital technologies in the study of media technology.

‘Bataille’s big toe: in search of the filmic in film’, The Wild Eye: Symposium on Experimental Film Studies, Faculty of Humanities, De Montfort University, 2009.

‘Pancakes and World Peace: user-generated video and the ‘enchanted objects’ of stop motion animation’Internet Attractions: Online Video and User-GeneratedEphemera Academic Workshop, University of Nottingham, 2009.

‘Web Cinema: Mind the Gap’, Video Vortex V, Brussels, 2009.

‘No Laughing Matter’, Access All Areas Symposium, UWE, Bristol, 2010.

‘British Film Blog: Bubbling in the Doldrums of UK Film Exhibition’, A Century of Cinema Exhibition: From Silent Screen to Digital Screen Conference, Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, July 2010.